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Issue Details

Issue #34
Published October 1962
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in July 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "Inside the Blue Glass Bottle!"

Characters Elias Dane
Genre occult
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Steve Ditko
Notes Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (30 August 2006).

7 page story "I Found the Girl in the Blue Glass Bottle!"

Characters Elias Dane
Synopsis A curio shop owner uses an ancient magic bottle to shrink people, but one of his victims turns the magic of the bottle on him and escapes, as the shop owner shrinks to nothing.
Genre occult
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #22 (July 1973)

2 page text story "Tricky Travel"

Characters Eli Twiddle; Mr. Hardy
Synopsis A travel agent has the ability to travel in his dreams, but eventually he grows out of it.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #48 (August 1956)

6 page story "The Forbidden World!"

Characters John; Eric
Synopsis A space patrol find an alien world surrounded by a strange mist. They are fired on by the inhabitants and plan to retaliate, but realize too late that they were trying to keep them from the deadly mist surrounding the planet.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes The last page advertises the Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (1962).

5 page story "The Coming of the Giants!"

Synopsis The humanity of the near future grow proud as they approach space travel, but when alien giants arrive they are only saved from conquest because they are too tiny to notice.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Reprinted in Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #23 (May 1973)

5 page story "Who Am I?"

Characters Death
Synopsis A man finds himself lost in a fog with no idea who he is. He is approached by a stranger who offers to help him through hypnosis. The hypnosis recovers his lost memory and he realizes that he was a circus performer who has died from a fall from the high wire. The stranger is revealed as Death who was delayed from their appointed meeting and is here to usher him into the next world.
Genre occult
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko